Mythical monsters

1. Mythical monsters
A cycle of gender-based violence

2. Medusa
She used to be a beautiful maiden, priestess of
Athena, but then Poseidon raped her in the temple
of Athena.
The enraged Athena turned Medusa into a hideous
creature with the face of an ugly woman, and
snakes for hair.
But worse still, anyone who dared look her in the
eye would be turned to stone.

3. Minotaur
The Minotaur lived in a labyrinth below the court of King
Minos in Crete.
Poseidon had gifted Minos with a Cretan bull that was
supposed to be sacrificed, but Minos kept the bull instead of
sacrificing it.
This enraged Poseidon, and in his anger, he made Minos' wife,
Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull. The Minotaur was their
offspring.
The newborn Minotaur would only eat humans, so Minos
created a labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur and sent human
sacrifices as food for the creature.

4. Centaurs
Ixion was in love with Hera, the wife of Zeus, and tried to
rape her while at Olympus by Zeus's invitation.
Hera informed Zeus about his actions, and he decided to test
her story.
He molded the clouds into a nymph named Nephele who
resembled Hera and laid it near Ixion. Ixion raped Nephele.
The result of the union between Ixion and Nephele was the
centaurs, who Nephele gave birth on the slopes of Mount
Pelion.

5. Lamia
Lamia was the mistress of the God
Zeus.
Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, killed
Lamia's children and transformed
her into a monster that hunts and
devours the children of others.

6. Sirens
Sirens were beautiful creatures who
sang songs so beautiful the listener
would fall into a state of lethargy.
They were deadly, causing
countless sailors to steer their ships
into sharp rocks.

7. Chimera
Chimera was a fire-breathing,
female monster.
The Chimera had ransacked
many villages occasionally
killing innocent bystanders.

8. Sphinx
She stayed outside the city of Thebes and
asked travellers a famous riddle:
"Which creature has one voice but four
feet in the morning, two at noon and three
feet at night?"
Anyone who answered incorrectly was
eaten.

9. Harpies
The Harpies snatched children and the
souls of the people.
For this reason they were depicted on
the graves holding the souls of the dead
in their fingernails.